or 14.

And it was very shocking, of course, for the whole church.

Sure.

And both, you know, dad was dealing with his own pain.

Yeah.

And the kids really spiraled badly with the pain of losing their mother at that age.

Sure.

Yeah.

Can you please give us a brief GNO overview? I know it is all three, so please try to contain yourself.

Sure.

Thanks.

I'll take my 45 minutes as Sam has given me.

So good morning.

Thank you, everyone, for attending.

I guess good afternoon.

The other thing is that we're still

Is it more money flow than anything right now from some of these big hedge funds and things like that?

Yeah, I think when we think, and you kind of set it up well, and you think about the market is, you know, we know a lot of the bullish factors of this market.

We know about, well, yields may be an issue.

We'll just say that.

We know what's happening in the Straits of Hormuz.

We know what's happening in the Middle East and Israel and Gaza.

We know that Russia and Ukraine continue to bomb each other, and that's become a problem.

Is the El Nino story setting up to be a bigger South American story as we go into the winter, do you think?

You

know, our church, my wife and I pastored it.

Well, I pastored it.

I actually started the church three years before we got married.

So she came in three years later.

We led the church 45 years.

Okay.

So

So how do you read those numbers?

Yeah, it's a great question.

I think you have to kind of look at it a couple different ways.

You can look at it versus last year.

I'll just give you some percentages.

So if you look at the corn crop this year, it's down 3.5% versus a year ago.

But the really important thing is to compare it to the March prospective planted report.

Well, maybe not over 10 decades, but it's the lowest that we have seen in 100

But let's give a big warm welcome, Steve Nicholson.

Tonight, this room right here is the freedom getting place.

This is a freedom getting place.

Jesus came to set the captives free.

Wherever he shows up, that place becomes a freedom getting place.

He loves freedom.

to bring freedom, even to the most unlikely of people in the most unlikely of places.

So,

God's been good.

Hasn't he? God's been good.

All right, turn in your Bibles to Acts chapter 14.

Or pull out your phones.

I'm assuming most of, like me, many of you have your Bible on your phone.

I used to have a little travel Bible, but the print got too small.

said, why not?

You can

either sit up here or you can sit down here.

I like this.

I've been waiting like a year to get to see you guys.

I think it's been like a year almost.

Like we saw the McGregors and some of the other folks at Carol Embers' funeral, which I think about a year ago.

It was February, yeah.

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